If you are handy and can knock out work as you live there, great, but don't fall into a trap of buying something that needs a ton of work, unless you have the capital / money to fix it up post closing I got my first house-hack before I became a realtor.

The most important thing is to set boundaries with your tenants so they are not knocking on your door every time they have a question.

While lower-income tenants are the largest group to be evicted, residents of brand new subdivisions where townhouses rent for nearly $3,000 a month have also heard the constable’s knock.

But if you're living on site and knocking on doors to collect rent, could work out for you. 

BUT they did knock down that building, the historical water master's house!

Knocking out improvements over the holidays, and selling beginning of the year when interest rates drop and home prices increase due to demand.

You have to just commit to doing the lead generation 5-6 days a week (social posts, door knocking, talk to people you know, talk to people you don't know, host open houses for agents in your office, drive for FSBO's, etc) until you have planted so many "seeds" that they result in business. 

There have been some famous scientific studies that showed people were far more likely to want someone else knocked down to size than for themselves to be lifted higher if they perceived a situation was unfair.

Looking to start diving into the cold calling/knocking game.

Tenants do want another tenant having access to their home and the manager doesn't want tenants knocking on their door all hours of the day.